Heartland - Maniototo (Living in the Maniototo)

You can have five or six years at a high school but you're not educated until you go through a curler's court.

– Local Doug Francis

If you're playing football and somebody kicks you in the ribs, well you wait till next scrum and you hook into em don't ya. But curling's different. It's a very sportsmanlike thing. You'd rather lose than cheat. Nobody would cheat in curling.

– Local poet and farmer Ross McMillan

I saw those can-can girls one day and thought I might but nah, started curling.

– Local poet and farmer Ross McMillan